Whiny in the beginning. Actually installed it over 1/3rd of the way through. Nitpicky as heck over visual/aesthetic issues that are correctable given the chance. On the whole, though, praise for it's integration and performance, crispness and resolution. Mostly good review, I agree.....I kept thinking the entire time I was reading that he already had a favorite distro that was a measuring stick. In other words I did not feel he went at it with an open heart. But good read. (These things are intuitive in prose, and unprovable to boot.)
edit: clarity; maybe it worked